Vue de Tschibel Ell Deur

Description

Attractive copper engraved view of sailing ships and the coast shape of the Nile River in Egypt. Showing serveral ancient places in background. Engraved after Marcus Tuscher (1705-1751).

Details

Cartographer

Frederick Louis Norden

Title

Vue de Tschibel Ell Deur

Publisher, Year

Didot l'ainé, Paris, 1795

Plate Size

17.8 x 27.1 cm (7.0 x 10.7 inches)

Sheet Size

21.0 x 29.0 cm (8.3 x 11.4 inches)

Volume

volume 2 (plate 75)

Condition

Fine condition, good visible plate mark.

Cartographer

Frederick Louis Norden, an eminent Danish traveller, was born 1708 in Gluckstadt, Holstein. He was a volunteer in the British fleet under Sir John Norris in the Mediterranean, having been previously sent by the king of Denmark to Egypt, to make drawings and observations of the ancient monuments of that country. These he executed with great fidelity, and his Travels in Egypt and Nubia. with plates, were splendidly printed in 3 vols. folio. Being elected a member of the Royal Society of London, he presented to that learned body his drawings of ruins and colossal statues at Thebes, of which he also published a memoir. Died, 1742. (Maunder, S. The biographical treasury. New ed. 1870.)

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Frederick Louis Norden: Vue de Tschibel Ell Deur.

Antique town view with ships, Nile River, Egypt. Printed in Paris by Didot l'ainé in 1795.